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After the Banquet
by MISHIMA, Yukio
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Near fine
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Small octavo. 5.25 x 8 in. 270 pp. Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keane. Near fine in original green cloth boards, a small tear due to adhered pages on half-title page, and near fine pictorial dust jacket, a pen mark price to inner flap.
Synopsis
With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition.With vast psychological acuity and an unblinking insight into the nature of political and domestic warfare, Yukio Mishima creates a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged entrepreneur falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife.In time, however, the restless Kazu decides to resurrect her husband's political career. In doing so, she embarks on a series of compromises and evasions that will force her to choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. With its subtle ambiguities and its complex, vibrant heroine, After the Banquet is a magnificent novel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6421
- Title
- After the Banquet
- Author
- MISHIMA, Yukio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
Terms of Sale
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Bagatelle Books, IOBA
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Bagatelle Books, IOBA
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